Means for making bats for mattresses



(No Model.)

D. HAYNES. MEANS FOR MAKING BATS FOR MATTHESSES.

No. 657,675. Patented AL. 1896.

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DAXIEL HAYNES, OF SEALY, TEXAS.

MEANS FOR MAKING BATS FOR MATTRESSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 557,675, dated April '7, 1896.

Application filed November 16, 1895. Serial No. 569,212. (No model.)

i" 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL HAYNES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sealy, in

the county of Austin and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Making Bats for Mattresses; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in means for making bats for mattresses, and it is designed primarily as an improvemeni upon the Patent No. 399,0ll.

It has for its object, among others, to provide simple mechanism for accomplishing the desired end. I gin into a room or place having the width or the length of the average width or length of a mattress, but extending the necessary length-say twenty or twentyfive feet, more or lessto allow the cotton or material used to settle uniformly across it, the top at the extreme end preferably covered with wire-gauze to assist the draft from the gin. The floor and sides of this box or room or other receptacle into which the material for the mattress-bats is falling from the gin is provided with a means to carry the ginned material along from the gin as fast as it is worked. The bats may be formed in one long continuous web,from which the desired length may be out.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing my apparatus is shown in vertical longitudinal section.

Referring now to the details of the drawing by letter, A designates a room, box, or receptacle of the required size, having at one end an opening B, with which is designed to connect a fine leading from the cotton-gin into the room and through which the ginned cotton from the gin enters said room. The ginned cotton or lint is indicated by the lighter lines as flying about in a loose condition before settling and before forming the more compact mass C. (Indicated by the heavier lines.)

From this room the material is carried by the drums E and F, which are arranged above the same, and the drums G and H, which are arranged beneath the same, all as clearly shown. The gin may be arranged in as close proximity to the room as may be found most convenient.

I is a drum, which is geared in any suitable manner to the gin-stand, so as to move or pull the material from the room at the rate and time it takes the gin to work the material of one bat. This I prefer to do in such a manner as to pull in the right direction the top cloth J and the bottom cloth K, which are to cover the hat. The top cloth is wound around the roller or drum E and passes under the drum F to the roller or drum I. The bottom cloth is wound around the drum or roller G and passes along the frame L, which is provided to support the weight of the material, and over the roller II to the drum I. The drums F and H are oppositely disposed to each other and are designed to press the bat to the required thickness and give an opportunity at the same time to confine the edges of the top and bottom covering before passing onto the drum I. The bat is shown as formed after having passed the rollers F and H and about to be wound upon the drum I. Any suitable material may be employed for the top and bottom coverings.

It will be understood that, while the ends of the drums or rollers are exposed, the bat while being formed will not be exposed, the same being formed in a room or inclosure, the same as in other machines of this character.

hat I claim as new is 1. The combination with an inclosure hav ing an opening at one end for the reception of material, of rollers or drums disposed one at the bottom rear end of said inclosure and the other at the front and on a higher plane, rollers near the lower front end of said inclosure and coverings passed around the firstmentioned rollers and between the rollers at the front end of the inclosure and adapted to receive the material between them, substantially as described. 7

2. The combination with the inelosure having an opening at one end for the reception of material, of rollers or drums disposed one at the bottom rear end of said inelosure and the other at the front and on a higher plane,

rollers at the lower front end of said inclosure and fabric coverings passed around the firstmentioned drums and between the rollers at the lower front end of the inclosure and adapted to receive the material between them, two of said rollers being oppositely disposed and constructed to compress the bat between them, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification 1n the presence of two subscrib- 1o ing Witnesses.

DANIEL HAYNES.

Vitnesses:

C. H. SALOMON, WM. SIEMS. 

